Barresi Benefits Group—Available Services

Dedicated Account Management Team…each account is assigned an Account Executive and a Group Service Specialist. They are responsible for the day to day service and are accountable to you for the smooth operation of the employee benefits plan.

A Registered Nurse … to assist the group department with complex medical and disability claims and service issues and is also available to address ongoing disease management and wellness initiatives.

A Licensed Pharmacist Consultant… to guide your employees through the impossible task of sorting through prescription formularies and assist you in reviewing prescription claims reports.

Customized Newsletters and Services Days… to educate your employees on the added value built into their benefits plan, to communicate timely information pertinent to their health and well being and deliver important messages that could make a difference on plan utilization.

Detailed annual renewal studies including competitive options…to ensure you are receiving a fair renewal and achieving the greatest value for your employee benefits dollars.

Technology to enroll and manage employee benefits… gives you the power to manage your company’s entire benefits portfolio.

HealthCare Action Initiative… to help lead your group into solutions on healthcare issues affecting your work force. We believe we can make a difference in the affordability of healthcare while improving the quality of care for some.

Dedicated Account Management Team

Dedicated Account Manager and Group Service Specialist: each account is assigned an Account Executive and a Group Service Specialist. They are responsible for the day to day service and are accountable to you for the smooth operation of the employee benefits plan.

Monthly informational exchanges: to ensure groups satisfaction with the quality of services provided.

Quarterly reviews of groups experience and semi-annual review of utilization: to track your medical coast to dollars budgeted. To heighten managements awareness on how and where the health care dollars are being spent. For use as a management decision making tool.

Pre-renewal meeting at least 160 days prior to the renewal: to re-review your goals as a company, develop preliminary budget, review additional options and or desired plan changes, To determine if employee benefits plan should be put out to market.

Detailed annual renewal studies: to ensure you are receiving a fair renewal and achieving the greatest value for your healthcare dollars expended.

A Registered Nurse Consultant
Barresi was the first and only broker in Maine to create and staff this type of a position.

A Registered Nurse: to assist the group department with complex medical and disability claims and service issues

An Advocate: to support and intercedes on behalf of your employees

A Highly Trained Professional: Not just from a knowledge standpoint, but also to increase the comfort level that people have when discussing difficult situations

A Participant in our Healthcare Action Initiative: available to address ongoing disease management and wellness initiatives.

A Licensed Pharmacist Consultant

Because the prescription drug benefit has become one the most complex and costly area of most health plans. We have added the services of a Licensed Pharmacist Consultant for our groups. Our consultant can assist members in deciding on the best prescriptions for their needs, including reviewing copay options and suitable prescriptions and alternatives.

Information: Review the groups prescriptions claims reports

Recommendations: Make general observations based on his experience

Assistance: Available to assist members in sorting through prescription formularies

Motivation: Help steer employees to more cost effective, quality medications

Customized Newsletters and Services Days

Information can be a powerful tool and unfortunately many employees do not have a full understanding of the value of the benefits purchased for them by their employer. With the permission of the employer we like to hold educational employee meetings to discuss the renewal, the marketplace trends, our job in the process, and what the benefits of the plan consist of. We also offer customized newsletters and benefit statements to help educate employees on how to be a better consumer and communicate important messages that could make a difference on plan utilization.

To educate and assist your employees with their benefits

To inform your employees of the added value built into their healthcare plan

To help modify behavior toward healthier lifestyles

To deliver the messages from the Healthcare Action Initiative

Technology to enroll and manage your employee benefits

Allows quick and easy enrollment of your employees in any benefit plan.

Creates Employee Benefits Statements with detailed personalized employee and employer contributions for all benefits, including employer paid and voluntary benefits.

Assures accurate carrier bills. Your database will give independent verification of carrier bills. Gone are the hours spent reconciling your monthly bills.

Access to electronic forms. Forms available at your fingertips that you or your employees can print with much of the information already completed.

Select Management Reports. This allows for quick and easy review of plan cost and participation rates.

Census information. Maintains a complete and up-to-date employee database.

Import/Export payroll data.

This Technology is made available to Barresi clients by way of from our Strategic Partner Common Census.

HealthCare Action Initiative

To help lead your group into solutions on healthcare issues affecting your work force. We enlist the services of HealthEconomy LLC.

We Look at Your People: census including age, gender, and salary distribution: plus information about your work site, schedules, turnover and other factors that affect health. You’ll receive: Solutions that fit your workforce. Your group may not need a sophisticated wellness plan – a simple incentive program or targeted education could do the job.

We Look at Your plan: A summary of your health benefits plan design – co payments for office visits, ER, Rx, and what kind of care are covered and or limited. You’ll receive: Insight on how the benefit plan can promote health and reduce costs.

We Look At Your Group’s Diagnosis Patterns: A listing from your group’s medical claims showing the dollars spent on each diagnosis code. (Note: no patient-level data is used) Also a list of the groups top 20 most expensive Prescription drugs. You’ll receive: a summary of the illnesses and health habits that drive your group’s costs

We Look At Proven Programs: The latest literature on how consumers use and benefit from medical care, wellness, and health education programs. You’ll receive: Recommend practical and promising tools to encourage cost effective medical care and to improve your employees’ health

At Barresi Benefits Group, we are always happy to review your benefits package and make recommendations on ways to improve the benefits and hopefully reduce the cost. In order to do a comprehensive review we generally request the following information:

Census of your benefits eligible staff including gender, dates of birth and possible enrollment election.
Current benefits overview. This is useful to base our recommendations knowing what you have in place currently for benefits and also what the cost is now for your benefits package.
Claims reports if available are also useful if available. This assists our office in reviewing past benefit use and allow us to have a better view of the future use of benefits.